PROHIBITION: Repeal & Return

Out of the wordy welter of the House Judiciary Committee's hearings on
legislation for Dry law repeal there began to take unmistakable shape
last week a new and significant agreement among potent Wet witnesses.
Heretofore few active Wets have been in accord on a remedy for conditions
against which they complained (TIME, March 3). In the 1928
campaign Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed changes in the Volstead Act to
permit a higher percentage of alcohol in beverages in the discretion
of the States. Thus, by his proposal, one State might permit
no alcohol whatever,...